feat: add catalog counts to MCPServer status

[matzew]

What this fixes

• Closes Surface MCP server catalog counts in status #386 (Surface MCP server catalog counts in status).
• Part of Tracking: MCP protocol roadmap features for MCPServer #388 (MCP protocol roadmap features umbrella).
• Fixes the CodeRabbit-flagged pagination undercount: catalog lists now follow
  NextCursor across all pages instead of counting only the first page.

What this does

Extracts tool / resource / prompt counts from the MCP server's tools/list,
resources/list, and prompts/list calls after a successful handshake and
surfaces them in status.serverInfo.catalogCounts.

• Counts are nil when the corresponding capability is not advertised, which
  distinguishes "capability not supported" from "supported but zero items".
• Listing is paginated: cursor-following iterators are used, so multi-page
  catalogs are counted in full (not just the first page).
• Individual list failures are swallowed (catalog counts are best-effort
  metadata) and do not block the rest of the collected server info.

Why / roadmap context

This is the first (P1) of a set of MCPServer status features that anticipate the
official MCP protocol roadmap (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/development/roadmap). Catalog counts give operators
at-a-glance visibility into what a server actually exposes, and lay the
groundwork for later roadmap-driven items (discovery caching, server card /
.well-known metadata, enterprise auth).

Testing

• Unit tests for extractCatalogCounts backed by an in-memory MCP server:
  tools/resources/prompts counting, single-capability, nil-capability, and a
  two-page pagination regression test (PageSize: 1) that would fail if
  NextCursor were ignored.
• Round-trip conversion tests (v1alpha1 <-> v1beta1) cover CatalogCounts.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added MCP server catalog counts for tools, resources, and prompts.
  • Catalog counts are collected during successful handshakes when supported and exposed in server status.
  • Preserves reported zero counts and leaves counts unset when capabilities are unavailable.
• Bug Fixes
  • Catalog listing failures are handled independently, allowing available counts to be recorded without blocking other server information.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The MCPServer status now records optional tool, resource, and prompt counts. Handshake processing lists advertised catalogs, preserves successful counts including zero, maps them into status, and exposes the schema through generated apply and deep-copy code.

Changes

Catalog count reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Catalog count status contract api/v1alpha1/mcpserver_types.go, api/v1alpha1/applyconfiguration/api/v1alpha1/*, api/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go, config/crd/bases/mcp.x-k8s.io_mcpservers.yaml	Defines optional catalog counts in the API and CRD. Adds apply-configuration setters, ForKind support, and deep-copy handling.
Handshake catalog extraction internal/controller/mcpserver_controller_handshake.go	Lists tools, resources, and prompts when capabilities are advertised. Records successful result sizes and logs individual listing failures without failing the handshake.
Status persistence and validation internal/controller/mcpserver_controller.go, internal/controller/mcpserver_controller_handshake_test.go	Maps non-nil counts into applied server status. Tests reported counts, explicit zero counts, and absent capabilities.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPServerController
  participant verifyMCPEndpoint
  participant extractCatalogCounts
  participant MCPServerStatus
  MCPServerController->>verifyMCPEndpoint: verify MCP endpoint
  verifyMCPEndpoint->>extractCatalogCounts: query advertised catalogs
  extractCatalogCounts-->>verifyMCPEndpoint: optional catalog counts
  verifyMCPEndpoint-->>MCPServerController: enriched MCPServerInfo
  MCPServerController->>MCPServerStatus: apply catalog counts

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Suggested reviewers: aliok, soltysh, cali0707

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Catalog counts can be inaccurate for MCP servers whose tools, resources, or prompts span multiple pages, causing status to report fewer items than actually exist. The pagination handling should be corrected before merge.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/controller/mcpserver_controller_handshake.go`:
- Around line 219-247: Update the catalog-counting logic around
session.ListTools, session.ListResources, and session.ListPrompts to follow each
non-empty NextCursor until all pages are consumed, summing entries across pages
while preserving existing error logging and count assignment. Add a regression
test covering a two-page response for each paginated catalog type.

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• api/v1alpha1/applyconfiguration/api/v1alpha1/catalogcounts.go
• api/v1alpha1/applyconfiguration/api/v1alpha1/mcpserverinfo.go
• api/v1alpha1/applyconfiguration/utils.go
• api/v1alpha1/mcpserver_types.go
• api/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
• config/crd/bases/mcp.x-k8s.io_mcpservers.yaml
• internal/controller/mcpserver_controller.go
• internal/controller/mcpserver_controller_handshake.go
• internal/controller/mcpserver_controller_handshake_test.go

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[matzew]

/hold

let's see what folks think

[matzew]

Holding this: catalog counts considered, deferred for now

Keeping this on /hold rather than merging. Not because the code is wrong (the
pagination undercount is fixed and it's tested), but because the feature is a
point-in-time, operator-identity snapshot and I'd rather not ship something that
can quietly mislead:

• Prior art says back it out: Kuadrant/mcp-gateway had an equivalent
  .status.discoveredTools and removed it (mcp-gateway #1187,
  closes #629). Their driver was architectural (a decoupled
  broker they HTTP-polled), which does not apply to us, but the staleness point
  does: without a tools/list_changed subscription the count drifts between
  reconciles, and status carries no handshake timestamp to date it.
• Per-caller lists: MCP servers can return different lists per auth identity,
  so the count reflects the operator's view, not necessarily a given end-user's.
• Cross-SIG signal: kube-agentic-networking reached the same caveats
  independently (kube-agentic-networking#340,
  which flags near-direct overlap with our Cache MCP discovery results with a configurable TTL #387).

Parking rather than closing so the work isn't lost if the upstream freshness
primitives land (SEP-2549 ttlMs [https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2549], tools/list_changed). Tracking the
decision on #386. Happy to revisit if reviewers feel strongly.